Surname Pecak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pecak families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Gornje Psarjevo in Sveti Ivan Zelina every seventh inhabitant had the family name Pecak.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Pecak live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Gornje Psarjevo (45), Velika Gora (<10), Sveti Ivan Zelina (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Djurdjekovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pecak (including: Pecache , Petzak , Pechak , Pezak , Pechac , Pezzack , Pecák , Pezhvak and Petzack ) is present in 32 countries worldwide. The family name "Pecak " is used by some 3000 people in Poland , about 300 in the United States , and some 200 people in Czech Republic. "Pezak " is used by some 90 people in the United States. "Petzak " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Brazil , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Božidar Pecak, Željko Pecak, Irena Pecak, Tatjana Pecak, Davor Pecak, Gordana Pecak, Vlado Pecak, Darinka Pecak, Ivan Pecak, Tomo Pecak, Ivka Pecak, Đuro Pecak, Nikola Pecak, Zdenkica Pecak, Jadranka Pecak, Tomislav Pecak, Dominik Pecak, Franjo Pecak, Vlasta Pecak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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